Improved baby-walker



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE JOSEPH ROHR, OF -BATESVILLE, INDIANA.

|MPRovED BABY-WALKER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 71,220. dated November19, 1867.

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH Rona, of Batesville, in the county of Ripleyand State of Indiana, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inBaby-Walkers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecication, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

A great proportion of the devices now in use which are intended to aidbabies in their irst efforts at walking are so arranged that the childis obliged to move a heavy, cumbersome machine on casters, therebytaxing the feeble muscles of its legs beyond their strength. To avoidthis difficulty I have invented a babywalker in which the child shallreceive all the support afforded by the ordinary devices, and at thesame time be allowed to move without the necessity of bearing with it aheavy weight.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan view of my walker, land Fig. 2 is asectional View thereof.

The area comprised within the large circle and marked A represents aplatform, perfectly level and smooth. In the center of this platform Iadjust an upright standard, (marked B.) This standard is hollowed outand adapted to receive at its top, and to allow revolving actiontherein, of an inner standard, (marked. 0,) the altitude of which insaid standard B is fixed and regulated by means of a set-screw, D. Nearthe top of this standard O, and attached to the same, I affix a circularplate, E, the upper surface of which is cutout in the form of a ratchet,as represented..

Letter F is a swinging bar, connected, as

A and cause it to move.

shown, with the top of the standard C, and made fast thereto by means ofa nut and screw. It has also a pawl, G, which works on the ratchet abovementioned.

Letter H represents a supporter, and letter K a toy-table, both attachedto the swinging bar, at its outer end, in the manner shown in Fig. 1 ofthe drawings.

My device is operated as follows, namely: Place the child upon theplatform, with its arms above the supporter H, and make him secure bymeans of a pin through the proper holes on the right hand of thesupporter, at the point marked L. Then, by means of the setscrew D,adjust and fasten the standard C, and consequently the supporter, to theheight required. Let the pawl G fall on the ratchet. Place the propertoys on the table, and the little one is ready for its first lesson. Inreaching forward for the toys the child will bring the weight of itsbody forward of a perpendicular line. The weight will fall on the barThe totterin g little feet naturally follow the movement of the bar,'andthe baby walks. The ofce of the ratchet and pawl is to prevent the barfrom swinging backward.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A baby-walker having platform A, standards B and G, set-screw D,swinging bar F, supporter H, toy-table K, and ratchets and pawl, asdescribed, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for thepurposes herein specified.

JOSEPH HOER. Witnesses:

WILL. W. WALLACE, C. B. DAvIs.

